Western Isles - Wild Flowers - Wildflowers & - Hebrides Flowers
The Hebrides has a great diversity of wild flowers - of all colours - and the white wildflowers are particularly pretty. From the sea mayweed daisy life flowers, the white bog cotton, the sea campion and the water lily. Lovely wildflowers of the Western Isles. In the late spring and summer the beautiful machair with its many types of wild flowers interwoven - a rare carpet of flowers - only to be seen in the Western Isles.
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Bogbean |
Bog bean - Common in the bogs and lochs in The Western Isles - has white star shaped flowers in the early spring.
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Bog Cotton |
Bog Cotton - really does look like cotton - attached to the stems and blowing in the wind.
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Sea Campion |
Sea Campion - lovely white wildflowers that can be seen on the cliff tops and flower here from May to July
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White Campion |
White Campion - that are native to The Western Isles , we also get ragged robin flowers here which are a type of campion
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Daisy |
A familiar, native wildflower. Attractive, silver white blooms with golden-yellow 'eyes' seen all over The Western Isles
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Eyebright |
These lovely tiny white or lilac flowers the eyebright are seen in The Western Isles throughout the summer, pretty wildflowers.
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Water Lily |
Lovely wildflowers, white water lilies grow wild in the lochs in The Western Isles - Isle of Lewis
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Machair |
Particular areas of the Western Isles have their own machair's made up of all different types of wildflowers .
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Sea Mayweed |
Sea Mayweed A common seaside plant, with lovely white daisylike wildflowers - flowering June to September
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Yarrow |
Yarrow, with flat flower heads. Has a common name "soldiers wound wort" as was used to stop soldiers bleeding.
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| Miscellaneous - Lichen - Seaweed |
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Seaweed |
Many different types of seaweed wash up on the Hebrides shores, some are really pretty. Read more and see pictures
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Lichen |
Lichen organisms / funghi are really diverse. From bright yellow lichen through to grey green lichen
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